Democrats send a letter to the president, asking what specific policies he was going to put in place to curb our “addiction to oil.” This echoes the thoughts of many consumer groups, calling Bush’s recent obsession with our oil problem as merely a cosmetic campaign, not real policy. And sure enough, our imports from the Middle East are set to rise by 50% over the next two decades.

Democrats in the letter refused to detail how they would do it, or offer any advice on the subject. They could have pointed to Hillary Clinton’s initiative to become energy independent by 2020 (That’s 5 years before bush wants to reduce from only the Middle East, a small supplier to the US), or the Apollo Initiative, which creates 3 million jobs in the process. Lets step up Democrats, we’re clearly the only party that can put out plans to really help cut back on our oil use, just let everyone out there know.